Hi! We're Don and Nicole from Washington state. We are approved and pursuing Open Adoption through Independent Adoption Center. If you or anyone you know is looking into adoption as an option, please share our journey. Want to know more about adoption; you can contact us anytime.

I had a hard weekend recently in light of the closure and
then our Superbowl party where I met the 2 babies who should’ve been our babies
BFFS as it were. If our placement hadn’t failed last August our boy would’ve
been about 2 months older than our friend’s boys they had in November/December.
It was a gratifying day to hold the
babies for 8 hours but at the same time it was devastating. I actually cried
the whole way home in a snow storm meaning it took us 3 hours to get home. Now I know it’s on me and my emotions, etc
but seriously it’s been 4 years and I’m human.
The week leading up to this is what I think broke me. I’ve not had issues when the others were
born, except to be jubilant in their arrival. I love those kids as my own. I watched their parents grow up and then have
them so what’s not to love!

Today, I find we’re at cross-roads. I’ve contacted, many lawyers and none have
contacted us back. There was a lawyer in
our news piece that I left a message with and here we are 5 days later and no
response to our message I left for her.
I had also contacted a lawyer in Seattle and he took my name and number
but never called me back; even after our social worker emailed him so ya that
doesn’t breed any confidence. These are AAAA Lawyers so how are we supposed to
be confidant with them handling our potential situation. The answer is we aren’t. Thankfully the lawyer we had with our failed
placement is available but I haven’t reached out yet. This is on my to do list.

We are lucky to have own website on top of other social
media but so far the biggest issue we’ve had is no one shares our pages. Everyone says oh hey grats! hope it happens
soon but no one steps up and shares us. So please if you follow us or even just
read our blog please for the love of all please share our journey because now
without an agency we’re stuck on word of mouth/social media.

Our personal website is http://www.dndadoption.org/

Of course we still have FB, Twitter, Pinterest, Adoptimist, and you tube.

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We're an animal loving couple with 2 dogs and 2 cats hoping to adopt a newborn domestically in an open adoption through Independent Adoption Center. We are excitedly waiting for the opportunity to be parents so please share our journey if you know anyone who might be considering adoption.